Housing for vets
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| Title: | Housing for vets |
| Description: | Workers at construction site of renovated or nearly completed bungalow-like buildings intended as temporary housing for veterans in Manhattan Beach; shows one house (primarily), with two workers (one measuring board) before it; both images show icy ground and bare bushes in foreground. Caption on verso of HOUS 0150: "Housing for Vets: Workers are busy at Manhattan Beach Coast Guard Station, creating apartments for veterans and families in former bungalows and barracks. First apartments should be ready in February." |
| Date: | 1946 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Manhattan Beach (New York, N.Y.) |
| Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
| More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 29, 1946; "Eagle Staff photo." Grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Housing
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| Subject: |
Building construction Veterans Public housing Construction workers |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
| Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library. |
| ID: | HOUS 0152 |
